Lambeth Palace, London

Lambeth Palace, painted around 1750, records the Archbishop of Canterbury's medieval riverside residence from across the Thames. The palace, with its distinctive Morton's Tower gatehouse of 1495, had been the London seat of the Archbishops since the thirteenth century, and Scott's view documents its relationship to the river before later development altered the surrounding area. Scott's Thames views constitute the most comprehensive pictorial survey of London's riverside ever undertaken by a single artist.

The medieval palace architecture is rendered with topographical care, the different periods of construction clearly distinguished. The Thames foreground provides the characteristic marine element that ties this architectural view to Scott's broader body of riverine work.